---
type: "Bill"
title: "To revise the West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act"
description: "To revise the West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 3340"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3340 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hardy"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 42
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-02-08"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0825c51-ff1e-40fc-924b-c3291c2899fd"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3340&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "a31651890ca4cf4b9345000367a1baa820988c78deb38e978bdd795c2966a189"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
---

# West Virginia HB 3340 (2023) — To revise the West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3340%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3340)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3340%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3340)

## Votes

- Passage — **27–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hardy — primary (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Hite — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)
- Storch — cosponsor (person)
- Toney — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-02-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-02-08** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-08** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Do pass
- **2023-02-17** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-17** Postponed on 1st reading, Special Calendar, until 2/20/23
- **2023-02-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-21** Placed on House Calendar
- **2023-02-22** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2023-02-22** From House Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2023-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-22** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 202) `amendment-failure`
- **2023-02-23** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-23** Passed House (Roll No. 220) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Effective from passage (Roll No. 221)
- **2023-02-23** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-24** Immediate consideration
- **2023-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-24** On 2nd reading to Finance
- **2023-02-25** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-25** Immediate consideration
- **2023-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-27** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2023-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-27** Floor amendment rejected (Roll No. 305)
- **2023-02-27** Passed Senate (Roll No. 306) `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Effective from passage (Roll No. 306)
- **2023-02-27** Communicated to House
- **2023-02-27** Completed legislative action
- **2023-02-28** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-02** To Governor 3/2/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-02** To Governor 3/2/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-03** To Governor 3/2/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-09** Became law without Governor's signature - Senate Journal
- **2023-03-08** Became law 3/8/2023
- **2023-03-10** Became law without Governor's signature- House Journal
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 93, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0825c51-ff1e-40fc-924b-c3291c2899fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).